Jeopardy

stylistic devices

100

antithisis

• Antithesis: Opposition, or contrast, of ideas or words in a balanced or parallel construction

200

Allusion

• Allusion: Brief reference to a person, event, or place, real or fictitious, or to a work of art 

300

Periodic Sentence

• Periodic Sentence: Sentence whose main cause is withheld until the end

400

Metaphor

• Metaphor: Figure of speech that says one thing is another in order to explain by comparison 

500

Anaphora

• Anaphora: Competition of a word or phrase at the beginning of a successor phrases, or lines,

stylistic devices 2

100

•  Figure of speech that says one thing is another in order to explain by comparison 

Metaphor

200

•  Opposition, or contrast, of ideas or words in a balanced or parallel construction

Antithesis

300

•  Sentence whose main cause is withheld until the end

Periodic Sentence

400

•  Competition of a word or phrase at the beginning of a successor phrases, or lines,

Anaphora

500

•  Omission of conjunctions between coordinate phrases, clauses, or words 

Asyndeton

general information

100

what is the name of the speech

You are not special

200

who gave this speech

David McCullough

300

why was this speech given

high school graduation/commencement 

400

what was the name of the high school this speech was delivered at

wellesley

500

what year was this speech delivered

2015